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Online augmentation of an oblique aerial image sequence with structural information is an essential aspect in the process of 3D scene interpretation and analysis. One key aspect in this is the efficient dense image matching and depth…
Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are indispensable in the fields of remote sensing and photogrammetry, with their refinement and enhancement being critical for a diverse array of applications. Numerous methods have been developed for…
High-resolution elevation data is essential for hydrological modeling, hazard assessment, and environmental monitoring; however, globally consistent, fine-scale Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) remain unavailable. Very high-resolution…
Many computer vision problems (e.g., camera calibration, image alignment, structure from motion) are solved with nonlinear optimization methods. It is generally accepted that second order descent methods are the most robust, fast, and…
Accurate and complete terrain maps enhance the awareness of autonomous robots and enable safe and optimal path planning. Rocks and topography often create occlusions and lead to missing elevation information in the Digital Elevation Map…
Building 3D reconstruction from remote sensing images has a wide range of applications in smart cities, photogrammetry and other fields. Methods for automatic 3D urban building modeling typically employ multi-view images as input to…
The remote sensing community has identified data fusion as one of the key challenging topics of the 21st century. The subject of image fusion in two-dimensional (2D) space has been covered in several published reviews. However, the special…
We demonstrate high fidelity enhancement of planetary digital elevation models (DEMs) using optical images and deep learning with convolutional neural networks. Enhancement can be applied recursively to the limit of available optical data,…
Density-equalizing map (DEM) serves as a powerful technique for creating shape deformations with the area changes reflecting an underlying density function. In recent decades, DEM has found widespread applications in fields such as data…
Several methods have been proposed for correcting the elevation bias in digital elevation models (DEMs) for example, linear regression. Nowadays, supervised machine learning enables the modelling of complex relationships between variables,…
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is an essential aspect in the remote sensing domain to analyze and explore different applications related to surface elevation information. In this study, we intend to address the generation of high-resolution…
This paper investigates the problems large-scale distributed composite convex optimization, with motivations from a broad range of applications, including multi-agent systems, federated learning, smart grids, wireless sensor networks,…
Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has shown great potential and promising applications in advanced imaging fields for its capabilities of material decomposition. However, image reconstructions and decompositions under sparse views…
A data model to store and retrieve surface watershed boundaries using graph theoretic approaches is proposed. This data model integrates output from a standard digital elevation models (DEM) derived stream catchment boundaries, and vector…
Central to the application of many multi-view geometry algorithms is the extraction of matching points between multiple viewpoints, enabling classical tasks such as camera pose estimation and 3D reconstruction. Many approaches that…
This paper addresses the problem of efficiently classifying high-dimensional data over decentralized networks. Penalized support vector machines (SVMs) are widely used for high-dimensional classification tasks. However, the double…
Detecting glass regions is a challenging task due to the inherent ambiguity in their transparency and reflective characteristics. Current solutions in this field remain rooted in conventional deep learning paradigms, requiring the…
In this paper we present a scalable approach for robustly computing a 3D surface mesh from multi-scale multi-view stereo point clouds that can handle extreme jumps of point density (in our experiments three orders of magnitude). The…
In the last decades, the development of smartphones, drones, aerial patrols, and digital cameras enabled high-quality photographs available to large populations and, thus, provides an opportunity to collect massive data of the nature and…
In this paper, a simple technique for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) potential landing site detection using terrain information through identification of flat areas, is presented. The algorithm utilizes digital elevation models (DEM) that…